The Chinese Rhyme Tables: Volume I [Paperback]

As the first volume of a two-volume set that studies Chinese rhyme tables, this book focuses on their emergence, development, structure, and patterns.

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Foreward to the Chinese Edition

Introduction 

Part I: When Was the Rhyme Table Born?  

1. Traditional Views on the Issue 

2. The Debate on This Issue in Recent Years and Its Progress 

3. Views that the Y?nj?ng Originated from the S?ng dynasty According to Y?nj?ng y?njik

4. Determining the Era in Which Rhyme Tables were Produced 

5. Analysis of the Development of Rhyme Dictionaries in the Su? and T?ng Dynasties 

6. Problems in the Qi?y?n and the Understanding of It in the T?ng dynasty  

7. The Historical Process of the Generation of Rhyme Tables 

8. The Relationship Between Ryme Tbles, Buddhism and Snogram Initials

9. Rhyme tables and the Sh?uwn y?nxu? c?nju?n 

Part II: The methods with which rhyme tables were arranged 

10. How was the question proposed? 

11. The Concept of Division and the Birth of Rhyme Tables 

12. The Nature of the Phonology of the Qi?y?n 

13. The Conditions Satisfied when Rhyme Tables were Arranged 

14. The Method of Arranging the Rhyme Tlsq